vitriolize

Compare French vitrioliser.

vitriolize (third-person singular simple present vitriolizes, present participle vitriolizing, simple past and past participle vitriolized)

1. (transitive, dated) To convert into a vitriol.

   Synonyms: vitriol (verb), vitriolate (verb)

2. (transitive, dated) To injure (a person) with sulfuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
3. (transitive, dated) To poison with vitriol.
   • 2008, Lincoln Geraghty, Mark Jancovich, The Shifting Definitions of Genre, page 99:

     Similarly, Something for Everyone was described as “an innocent seeming piece of Bavarian chocolate that has been vitriolized by hypodermic injection.”

• “vitriolize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.